Opinion: Armstrong a Convinced and Convincing Liar

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... welcome to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... Lance Armstrong infested tilting in the secular Church of Oprah this week ... in segments that will air Thursday and Friday ... the twelveth revelation be enough to resurrect his reputation ... editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz joins me now ... to discuss Dorothy ... what does it say about our society that we we can ... a compulsive liar like Lance Armstrong this budget national attention ... I don't know but you know for once that diverge ... and say the target of the soul but the first and foremost less Johnstone who is indeed is to say ... unconvinced and convincing Lyon who ... coached great cry and that seemed to me first is ... the sense that he is entitled ... to this aligning Miller notes could carry on ... new year and the year of persuasive lying everything going into ... and so ... Nokia second question ... what does that say ... that this person has been credited the core been accorded reverence ... had his name plastered all over it as an inspiration to the overcoming of terrible ... IDC's and insurance and all of the church the American virtues ... which is that Americans try this ... and he he it's ... I mean pathological if not actually pathological ... liar ... who has now gone to the place of last resort ... for people like this hoping to be re-established of course Oprah Winfrey ... is one hell of a lot smarter than Lance Armstrong in every concrete when she's not going into that ... she's gonna take ... all the credit and all of the wonderful stuff that comes your way when you have ... a very valuable interview and she's going to take ... top honors for ... that kind of trophies guilt report Oriel integrity ... that few people ... on hand because she can and she is going to say he didn't she has already ... he didn't quite come off as a person who shelling contrite this ... that covers a lot of territory meaning ... in IPO ... he ... tried a lot of cool and I'm not buying it but you folks come and have a look ... to turn this into studio audience ... but whatever went on to it is in fact the picky Kiely ... move all day ... of Kindest PCs of of ... lying I know they said that in America ... you know ... who was born every minute tickets cetera ... but the kind of arrogance that comes with Lance angst on ... the true sense of ... heroism ... I have done this I have done that in the month what he's done to all of those colleagues who is ... the isthe kind that can kill yet arrogance that ... the American people had not yet figured out ... speaking of compulsive liars incredible arrogance ... it looks like the defense here maybe that was the defense which is everybody else was doing and so I I do it too what's the big deal ... a year and go up ... in tech crew I didn't really is so nice that I mean that they've been his lawyers who said that I missed it entirely ... the crew did not invest ni of ... the year as the year to say how did you think this ... held continue ... to Swat ... this is one of the larger insinuation ... we lived in the contemporary world of politics including the Obama administration would you can say ... of Black is a bread dough into equal sized and had a ham Assam on my and and and a buy and nobody will question it because you have to really got ... to the real reason for this reasoning ... to Success Creek wetlands Armstrong got away with and he wasn't voted in but the important thing is ... the willingness of people ... the willingness of the press ... though they raise questions to accommodate this kind of false depiction of reality when it became obvious to every school child ... that killing two equals five is not the case ... that is the sickness ... if truth cannot be ... kind of pure objective fact if everything ... is subject to moderation ... in that way much elation ... we are a lot of trouble ... I think Lance Johnstone is going to stand ... as a symbol ... of wiener American popular culture kids ... and I use the word culture advised me this is not just sports ... he is in himself a great big show and the number of people who waited all this long ... well Dorothy you heres an interesting point that it really about the media ... it's in Vivendi Mitt Lance Armstrong chose was certainly chosen ... just for that very reason he wouldn't probably get ... that that kind of interrogation he would get ... worried it come on a show ... of like this one ... I'm ... what does Oprah how to sew for position herself now she ... she's a news maker all the sudden makers in this interview I mean what are we take of her credibility ... well ... I think that she is in their own way ... I think the real way ... a tough ... guy I've seen her in action we had before ... out with a book collector who ... sued and I did everything exactly ... up a list of thinking that if there was still of a a a Larry King doing this kind of thing ... he would get a lot of softball questions pretending to be high and full questions like Sally got into a little trouble over the other day so let's go on to something else though so when you have for breakfast morning stepping to secure ... that kind of thing is fun with the case ... you know my my closest ... on sixty minutes ... doing this kind of thing relentlessly by ... him so open is really ... the last resort of and maybe come into view I would not buy sound ... like a deal and sons John and be chasing ... the steely blue eyes concealed by that want ... goes under that want to honor ... those steely blue eyes of Oprah ... a will be to break their editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz you thank you for being with us ...